Bonus Iowa View: Obama is a victim of his improvisation

1:18 AM,
Sep. 20, 2013

Written by

Steffen Schmidt

He has not wanted to use military force in Syria, and he waited two years hoping that calls for Bashar Assad to resign would work. However, Assad just dug in and the Syrian war became more brutal by the day.

Then, unfortunately, Obama said without thinking about it, that chemical weapons would be the limit, the red line as he called it, that he would not allow to be crossed in Syria. ...